FAA Urges Foreign Airlines to Use GPS for SFO Landings

30 July 2013
In the wake of the Asiana plane crash, the FAA is now urging all foreign airlines to use a GPS system instead of visual approaches when landing at San Francisco International Airport. The FAA issued the recommendation on Sunday according to the Associated Press. The FAA cited a rise in the number of aborted landing approaches since the Asiana plane crash. Pilots on Asiana Flight 214 were cleared to make a visual approach when the jet crash-landed at SFO. On the day of the crash, the glide-slope indicator at the San Francisco airport was closed, and the pilots on Asiana Flight 214 were told to use visual approaches. (Image Credit: The Washington Post)More Info > (Bloomberg News)